He sat in the dimly lit pub, nursing a pint of beer. *The Unwritten Truth of Arthur Finch* stared up at him from the table. He'd never intended for anyone to know what happened that night. He swirled the beer in his glass, watching the bubbles rise and pop. He had a great craving for isolation. He felt a deep, persistent ache, a wound that refused to heal. He didn't deserve any of the good things in his life. He hated himself.

Emotion: regretful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.76

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion regretful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 regretful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the regretful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the regretful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
L0.801
S0.774
H0.513
0.479
been0.473
Suppressed:
de-0.407
--0.320
随后-0.317
(!)-0.310
oldukça-0.301